While a threat assessment is an effective way to keep everyone besides the person in trouble safe from potential harm, it's also a way to help that person in trouble, too. This difficult and often delicate situation calls for the knowledgeable guidance of a caring professional.

1. A Threat Assessment Can Stop Danger In Its Tracks

Whether a person in trouble is facing legal entanglement or not, their life is likely in a downward spiral and a threat assessment could be the wake-up call that stops it. Threat assessment is conducted by trained, seasoned professionals who are well aware of the danger signs people exhibit in various situations. While signals may be missed or ignored by the person in trouble themselves or friends and family, the professionals see it all loud and clear.

2. It Could Save The Job Of Someone In Trouble

One of the hardest ways a person and those who care about them can be affected by emotional instability or perhaps substance abuse is the loss of a job. Many people are able to fake their way through work, but only in the short-term. Eventually, the situations they're facing emerge on the job in one way or anther, such as outbursts or missed work due to the ongoing problem. An assessment may help guide a person out of the dire situation, while it's still possible to save their employment.

3. An Assessment Can Lead To Intervention

Assessments are very useful not just for the person experiencing the trouble, but for those around them, who could be in denial or wishful thinking their way through the turmoil. When the results of an assessment are clearly negative, it forces everyone involved to take action when they otherwise may have continued to ignore the problem or tried to wait it out. If the threat assessment indicates that danger is the most likely outcome of continued inaction, the grounds for an intervention have been laid, giving the people involved the means and reasons to step in and help.

4. It May Even Save A Life

Threat assessments are used by police and other professionals to keep the public self, but many troubled people, particularly those lost to the perils of drugs and alcohol, are at great risk of doing harm to themselves. When a professional assessment reveals these possibilities, it can change everything; hopefully opening the eyes of the person in trouble to the possibility of inflicting permanent, serious harm on themselves, their lives, and on those they care about.

Even facing the possibility of going through a threat assessment is an alarming situation where everything about a person can be taken into question, from their sanity to their ability to cope in the real world. Nonetheless, when it's needed, the good it can lead to far outweighs the difficulty of going through it, for everyone involved.